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Imagine if Uber offered car loans, not just rides. Its Indonesian analog will do this soon 2024-05-01 at 05:46 By Laura Dobberstein Superapp GoTo has an angle on everything – even taming TikTok Indonesian superapp provider GoTo will soon offer to take you for a ride – or loan you money to buy your own.… […]

Open source programming language R patches gnarly arbitrary code exec flaw 2024-05-01 at 04:16 By Matthew Connatser An ACE in the hole for miscreants The open source R programming language has patched an arbitrary code execution hole that scored a preliminary CVSS severity rating of 8.8 out of 10.… This article is an excerpt from

Cyber-bastard jailed for stealing psychotherapy files, blackmailing patients 2024-05-01 at 02:31 By Jessica Lyons Vastaamo villain more than doubled reported crime in Nordic nation A cyber-thief who snatched tens of thousands of patients’ sensitive records from a psychotherapy clinic before blackmailing them and then leaking their files online has been caged for six years and

Microsoft boss charms Indonesia with $1.7B AI, cloud injection 2024-05-01 at 01:31 By Matthew Connatser Promises to train 850,000 workers and build datacenters Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company will invest $1.7 billion in expanding its presence and building datacenters in Indonesia.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

More big city newspapers drag Microsoft, OpenAI hard in copyright lawsuit 2024-05-01 at 01:02 By Matthew Connatser Publishers want ChatGPT models destroyed after ML tech trained ‘unlawfully’ on articles Eight big-city American newspapers have banded together to sue Microsoft and OpenAI, claiming the tech duo unlawfully used the publishers’ copyrighted articles to train AI models.…

UnitedHealth CEO: ‘Decision to pay ransom was mine’ 2024-04-30 at 23:01 By Jessica Lyons Testifies that Citrix authentication snafu has cost the health giant dearly UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty will tell US lawmakers Wednesday the cyber-criminals who hit Change Healthcare with ransomware used stolen credentials to remotely access a Citrix portal that didn’t have multi-factor

Musk axes two more senior Tesla leaders, guts public policy team – report 2024-04-30 at 22:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo It’s not like you need wonks to put driverless robotaxis on public roads or anything The organizational tree at Tesla keeps shedding leaves, and a surprising number keep falling from the top with two more high-profile

IBM quantum system elbows into Arm-powered Fugaku supercomputer 2024-04-30 at 21:04 By Dan Robinson Slotting in the module for ambitious next-generation compute goals Japan’s Arm-based Fugaku supercomputer is to be paired with a newly developed quantum system from IBM as part of a project to research and develop future computing systems.… This article is an

NSA employee who tried and failed to spy for Russia gets 262 months in the slammer 2024-04-30 at 20:17 By Matthew Connatser Tried to sell top secret docs for the low, low price of $85k A former NSA employee has been sentenced to 262 months in prison for attempting to do freelance as a Russian

ChatGPT Plus remembers everything you forgot you told it to remember 2024-04-30 at 19:31 By Richard Speed Unless you live in Europe or Korea OpenAI’s Memory feature is now broadly available for ChatGPT Plus users, meaning many more can feel vaguely uncomfortable about how much the chatbot is “remembering” about their preferences.… This article is

There was an 81% year-over-year increase in ransomware attacks 2024-04-30 at 19:16 By An evaluation of nearly 4,900 ransomware attacks reveals information about malicious actors and their new techniques, their evolving operations and their global impact. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Enterprise browser maker Island says it’s now worth $3B 2024-04-30 at 18:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Big rise in valuation… for browser that won’t let you Control-V any data copied inside it Insta-unicorn Island, with its browser built for the enterprise, has some interesting funding news: it just hit a $3 billion valuation in an era

Razer made to pay $1.2M over ‘N95’ face mask that wasn’t 2024-04-30 at 18:17 By Richard Currie Customers to get their light-up cyberpunk respirators refunded Remember when Razer, better known for overpriced peripheral hardware with RGB blinkenlights aimed at gamers, released an overpriced “N95-grade” face mask?… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

EU duties might not be enough to hold off flood of Chinese EVs 2024-04-30 at 17:47 By Richard Speed 15 to 30% won’t touch the sides… 50%? Now you’re talking Import duties of 40 to 50 percent will be needed to shield the European auto industry from China-based producers, according to a new report.… This

Satellite of love: SES and Intelsat finally tie the knot in $3.1B acquisition 2024-04-30 at 17:16 By Richard Speed Second time lucky as competition from Starlink and pals increases Satellite operator SES is to acquire Intelsat for $3.1 billion, creating an entity with more than 100 Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and 26 Medium Earth Orbit

Millions of Malicious ‘Imageless’ Containers Planted on Docker Hub Over 5 Years 2024-04-30 at 17:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered multiple campaigns targeting Docker Hub by planting millions of malicious “imageless” containers over the past five years, once again underscoring how open-source registries could pave the way for supply chain attacks. “Over four million of the repositories in Docker

Bruce Perens tries to achieve a third impossible thing 2024-04-30 at 16:46 By Thomas Claburn Open source veteran hopes for a hat trick with Post-Open licensing regime Interview  Bruce Perens believes he can do three impossible things, having already accomplished two of them.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Elon Musk’s latest brainfart is to turn Tesla cars into AWS on wheels 2024-04-30 at 16:16 By Dan Robinson There are many reasons why this is likely more trouble than it’s worth EV carmaker Tesla is considering a wonderful money-making wheeze – use all of that compute power in its vehicles to process workloads for

European Commission starts formal probe of Meta over election misinformation 2024-04-30 at 15:47 By Lindsay Clark Europe takes action after Facebook parent withdraws monitoring tool The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against Meta, alleging failure to properly monitor distribution by “foreign actors” of political misinformation before June’s European elections.… This article is an excerpt

Poor cyber hygiene and budgets leave organizations ill-prepared 2024-04-30 at 15:16 By Many organizations are vulnerable to risk, yet a majority of cyber leaders express confidence that their organization can manage risk.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source